This report presents the key statistics on activity in the Criminal Justice System (CJS) for England and Wales. It provides information for January to December 2017 (referred to as the latest year) with accompanying commentary, analysis and presentation of longer term trends.

The data provides users with information about proven offending and its outcomes in England and Wales. The contents of this bulletin will be of interest to government policy makers in the development of policy and their subsequent monitoring and evaluation. Others will be interested in the way different crimes are dealt with in the CJS. Where appropriate, comparisons are made with various sources covering activity in the CJS  in particular, numbers of crimes recorded by and the outcomes assigned to those crimes by the police, which is the starting point for some of the crimes dealt with by other CJS agencies.

Main Points

1.64 million individuals dealt with by the CJS

1.39 million defendants were prosecuted

The conviction ratio was 86%

For indictable offences, the custody rate was 31.8% and average custodial sentence length (ACSL) was 20.0 months

This is the 2016 Criminal Justice Statistics calendar year annual bulletin; it is based on finalised data which has been subject to additional quality assurance relative to the other, provisional quarterlies and includes any cases for previous periods that have since become available. In addition to enabling the examination of high level trends, this bulletin includes a wider range of commentary on topics not covered in other quarterlies, and is accompanied by various tools and experimental statistics enabling users to examine particular offences, outcomes and offender profiles in greater detail

Main points:

1.74 million individuals dealt with by the CJS

1.46 million defendants were prosecuted

The conviction ratio was 85%

For indictable offences, the custody rate was 30% and ACSL was 19.4 months

First time offenders were more likely to be convicted than they were to be cautioned

This report presents the key statistics on activity in the Criminal Justice System (CJS) for England and Wales. It provides information for the latest twelve months (January 2015 to December 2015) with accompanying commentary, analysis and presentation of longer term trends.

The data provides users with information about proven offending and its outcomes in England and Wales. The contents of this bulletin will be of interest to government policy makers in the development of policy and their subsequent monitoring and evaluation. Others will be interested in the way different crimes are dealt with in the CJS. Where appropriate, comparisons are made with different sources covering activity in the CJS  in particular, numbers of crimes recorded by the police, often the starting point for crimes dealt with by other CJS agencies

This report presents the key statistics on activity in the Criminal Justice System (CJS) for England and Wales. It provides information for the latest twelve months (January 2014 to December 2014) with accompanying commentary, analysis and presentation of longer term trends.

The data provides users with information about proven offending and its outcomes in England and Wales. The contents of this bulletin will be of interest to government policy makers in the development of policy and their subsequent monitoring and evaluation. Others will be interested in the way different crimes are dealt with in the CJS. Where appropriate, comparisons are made with different sources covering activity in the CJS  in particular, numbers of crimes recorded by the police, often the starting point for crimes dealt with by other CJS agencies.

This report presents the key statistics on activity in the Criminal Justice System (CJS) for England and Wales. It provides information for the latest twelve months (January 2013 to December 2013) with accompanying commentary, analysis and presentation of longer term trends.

The data provides users with information about proven offending and its outcomes in England and Wales. The contents of this bulletin will be of interest to government policy makers in the development of policy and their subsequent monitoring and evaluation. Others will be interested in the way different crimes are dealt with in the CJS. Where appropriate, comparisons are made with different sources covering activity in the CJS  in particular, numbers of crimes recorded by the police, often the starting point for crimes dealt with by other CJS agencies